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Our neighborhood had one of those online calendars where you could sign up to take a meal to some neighbors whose son was undergoing chemo. I signed up to take a pot roast for dinner and about 1 pm the dad called me to ask if they had misunderstood that I was bringing dinner, i.e., "where are you?" but not in those words. I said no misunderstanding, I am bringing dinner. Well, they call their noon meal dinner. So they got pot roast for supper!

BTW, son is in remission and doing great!

YAY!!! GOOD NEWS!!!

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I live in the northeast & we're in a heat wave for the next few days. We drove to a nice lakeside restaurant for some vino & appetizers. There was a nice breeze & it was very comfortable eating outside.

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I discovered the word supper, meaning the evening meal I call dinner, as a child, by reading it in a book and asking my parents what the hell these characters were eating. It turned out my dad had grown up (in '40s-'50s small town Oklahoma) using the words interchangeably, but since by the time I came along he'd been in Los Angeles nearly 10 years and supper was completely gone from his vocabulary, I'd never heard him use it.

I went through a phase when I was around 30 where I packed big meals for lunch and ate light dinners when I got home, but it just didn't work for me. I'm a night person on every level, including my appetite.

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My SIL is a vegetarian so my brother normally grills on Sunday and makes extra so there's meat at the ready for him and his son during the week. My SIL still cooks meat, but this makes the dinner work a little easier for a few nights. Other than grilling, my brother does not cook. But my nephew usually makes dinner for everyone at least 2x per week.

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I'll cross my fingers for you @Qoass, but miracle pizzas are few and far between.

Speaking of pizza, my daughter will get a slice of leftover pizza for her pre-softball dinner tonight, but that was from one of the better pizza places around here from when the day got away from me on Saturday and I decided to phone it in for dinner.

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I was going to make some stir fry with boneless chicken thighs, some type of veggie mixture over brown rice, but after doing errands (drugstore, two grocery stores--to get what I needed, and getting my hair cut) I'm going to save the stir fry for tomorrow and settle for a ham sandwich and some goldfish crackers (and a big glass of ice water).

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Interesting to read about the use of "supper" and "dinner". I grew up in NYS and we used the words interchangably. It wasn't until I moved to NC that I learned using either word told folks something about your life (were you from farm people? or from city folks?). That was quite bewildering to me then and I still am having difficulty deciding which word to use because of that experience in NC.

Supper (heh!) tonight is just for me and was reheated pork fried rice leftover from Chinese delivery (I added some pineapple to make it interesting). Geez it's hot here. And this is just the start of summer. I wanna move to Vermont or NH. Get me outta here!!!!

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Interesting to read about the use of "supper" and "dinner". I grew up in NYS and we used the words interchangably.

Me, too! Although it was referred to as "dinner" when I went to college, so I tended to use that predominantly for a while. My parents teased me about it (good naturedly). Now, since that is enough in the rear-view mirror (graduated college in '95), I use both terms again.

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@NutMeg - I think the I Need a Recipe thread is a good start. And when someone talks about a dish they made that turned out well, they've been very open to sharing when someone else asks. And I haven't done it here (yet), but I find prefacing a question with EILIF (Explain in like I'm Five) communicates my interest, but I'm a beginner.

(came here for something else - see below - but apparently this post has been waiting to be posted for a while)

Thank you so much, now up to exploring the threads that don't show on top of the Food section. And will try and remember EILIF too :) but I will probably have forgotten by the time i'm next getting angsty about something I've had in my freezer for too long a while...

What I was coming in for though is the dinner/supper thingy. As I understand it, and that's true for Europe back in 17th to 19th century, so probably exported to America, in high society, a late lunch, called dinner, was the norm, taken in the afternoon, and supper was something you had at the end of the evening (depending of countries and centuries, after theatre or coming back from court or what have you). Whereas people from the countryside, who lacked all these delicate amusements, rose up earlier and went to bed earlier too. Therefore they had their "dinner" when the court was just waking up and their supper when these other fine people were getting ready for a night of fun, angst, intrigue, etc.

And because everyone is keen on looking polished, dinner, as used at the European courts, meaning NOT an evening meal, prevailed. With a few exceptions. Dinner and supper were used at the time where French was the main language in diplomacy and widely used at various courts, but people who migrated during that time to America (including Canada) took these uses of the words with them, and as they generally came from the countryside their meaning prevailed. So I suspect poor Irish, English and French immigrants, for instance, came from rural areas. It often amuses me how some French Canadian idioms an pronunciations are so close to old French and very specific French regional rural pronunciation that you only hear nowadays from the oldest people in the more remote areas (if you still do). Note that outside from cities, I've also heard old people in Belgium using dinner/supper (well, dîner, souper in French).

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I think growing up, the only time I heard "dinner" used exclusively was for "Sunday Dinner" and for holiday meals (I.e. Thanksgiving Dinner or Christmas dinner ) which were served in the early afternoon. Otherwise "supper" and "dinner" were used interchangeably to mean the evening meal.

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"Beef. It's what's for dinner." Loved those ads. You can get the recipes, too, they have a website.

So, tea. In our Canadian family, tea was mid-morning and mid-afternoon, a hot beverage with biscuits. However, on an old episode of Doctor Who, a character was having pork chops for tea. In the UK, is afternoon tea more like dinner?

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"Beef. It's what's for dinner." Loved those ads. You can get the recipes, too, they have a website.

So, tea. In our Canadian family, tea was mid-morning and mid-afternoon, a hot beverage with biscuits. However, on an old episode of Doctor Who, a character was having pork chops for tea. In the UK, is afternoon tea more like dinner?

What I was once told is that "tea" for working classes was more of a meal and "tea" for upper classes was a light snack to hold you till dinner. It could also be a social event.

Somebody probably has a better answer or knows first hand.

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Tonight we had chicken burgers, macaroni salad, and asparagus with homemade "Russian Dressing" and chopped eggs on top. Mr. P914 said it was the best meal of his vacation trip (he just got back at noon) to the Black Hills in SD that he took with our daughter and her family (me? I preferred to stay home in the AC and read book club selections!).

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So, tea. In our Canadian family, tea was mid-morning and mid-afternoon, a hot beverage with biscuits. However, on an old episode of Doctor Who, a character was having pork chops for tea. In the UK, is afternoon tea more like dinner?

3 hours ago, Giselle said:

What I was once told is that "tea" for working classes was more of a meal and "tea" for upper classes was a light snack to hold you till dinner. It could also be a social event.

Somebody probably has a better answer or knows first hand.

I was always told that "high tea" was more of a meal and "afternoon tea" was scones and crustless cucumber sandwiches. Not that you can't fill up on scones and tiny sandwiches, but that's allegedly more refined. When I was in London lo these many years ago, it was billed as "afternoon tea."

There's a place in Baltimore, Bertha's (home of the bumper sticker "Eat Bertha's Mussels"), that serves "high tea". It really is a meal.

On topic, dinner tonight was lemon yogurt and chips. And wine, of course.

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Mellowyellow, I have no idea what half the stuff you post is, but I suspect it's as delicious as all get out!

Of course, I have leftovers on tap for tonight. Again.

Ha! I was thinking the same thing. And eating the same thing. In the 8 minutes I had to eat between coming home and carting the girl off to softball yesterday I chopped up a chicken breast (previously mentioned above) and put it on a whole wheat wrap with some hot peppers. Then I wolfed down some leftover broccoli and a slice of watermelon. Grabbed a bottle of water and jumped in the car. Got one more night of this crap tonight and then I get to cook again tomorrow.

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My husband and I attended a museum's annual dinner for donors/members last night. The food was great (buffet with lots of options (we're talking the whole shebang - beef, chicken, fish AND a vegetarian option. I tried all four)), but by the time we reached the dessert table, all was left were cookies (and one bite-sized mocha cake, which I took))!!!!!

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My husband and I attended a museum's annual dinner for donors/members last night. The food was great (buffet with lots of options (we're talking the whole shebang - beef, chicken, fish AND a vegetarian option. I tried all four)), but by the time we reached the dessert table, all was left were cookies (and one bite-sized mocha cake, which I took))!!!!!

We just tried freekeh the other day and didn't care for it. I thought texture was fine but the taste not so much, I cooked it chicken broth and herbs the way I've done other grains. Mr.G didn't care for the texture nor taste. We prefer the quinoa or bulgur. Since he will readily eat those I'm happy.

Hubby is very specific with what he likes. He loves sushi but hates most cooked fish except cod, sword fish, tuna, shark and trout. Loves guacamole but hates avacados. Hates sour cream but loves dip. Hates tomatoes but loves salsa and Pico de gallo.

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What I was once told is that "tea" for working classes was more of a meal and "tea" for upper classes was a light snack to hold you till dinner. It could also be a social event.

Somebody probably has a better answer or knows first hand.

From what *I* understand, "high tea" was what the working classes had as a meal in the late afternoon and "afternoon tea" (the afternoon snack with fancy sandwiches and scones) is what many of us today (especially on this side of the Atlantic) call "high tea."

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I have no idea what's for dinner, but for lunch I just had a BLT made with my garden's first tomato of the season. Bliss.

As for the teas, as I understand it, historically high tea was a full, family meal served when workers got home for the evening, while low tea was the afternoon social gathering for ladies of leisure (the tea and small snacks were also enjoyed by other high society members, too), who ate fashionably late in the evening and thus liked a little something to tide them over.